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Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know – Alchemy
How Stuff Works takes on Alchemy in little over four minutes. A perfect video for quick viewing in an ADD Age, video takes you through the paces. You Tube summary provides: “Stuck halfway between the superstitions of magic and the methodology of science, alchemy was an intellectual haven for some of history’s most influential thinkers,…
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The Book That Can’t Be Read: Voynich Manuscript
The Voynich Manuscript appears to be an encrypted book about herbals, but also, contains many allegorical drawings. The beautifully colored and expensive manuscript composed of many pages made from large quantities of parchment, remains unreadable. The book has resisted major efforts to decipher, even by sophisticated computational analysis. A 45-minute National Geographic documentary retrieves manuscript…